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Halloween in Breightmet and Tonge
As all events are cancelled due to Covid we had grant funding sat in our accounts not being used which was restricted for events. After...


Recovering the lost Heathland - Leverhulme Park
On the 17th June of 2020 while exploring Leverhulme Park as part of a site visit to check the management plan with the current state of...


Seven Acres - fence reparation
Bolton NEWT were joined by Alun from The Friends of Seven Acres and Neil, a volunteer on Garstang Allotments to help fix some of the...


Guided Walks, Guided Foraging and Orchid Hunting
In May of 2020, after receiving grant funding from the Covid19 grant fund via the CVS, we attempted to bring together people through...


Why bash the Balsam?
What a successful day today, with our first public event on Leverhulme park since lockdown. We made sure that all of the social...


100 Family Grow kits - May of 2020
In May of 2020, we applied for grant funding from the CVS that would help spread information about Covid19, encourage people to safely...


Two silt traps - Five ponds - Leverhulme Park
Who doesn't love digging silt, soil and sand out of a hillside to create five ponds? It turned out to be a pretty obvious answer as only...


Lessons from water - Sluuuuurp!
How lucky were we with the weather today for our task on Leverhulme Park? We were digging out a pond and mud from silt traps, channeling...


Hedge Enough
It was NEWT's third and final hedgelaying task for the year and the final stretch of the hedge to lay outside SS Osmunds and Andrews....


Regrowth through hacking and slashing
Newt returned for our 2nd of 3 visits to the hedgerow outside SS Osmunds and Andrews. As the work began we started by freeing the...
North East Wildlife Trail
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